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For starters, I am not the Henry Porter who writes for the Observer in Britain. I'm a native New Yorker living in Maryland. I used to believe knowledge was power. Now I know knowledge translated into action is power.

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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 20, 2009
Health Insurance Company Stock Prices Say it All If you want to know how health insurance companies really view the current health care reform debate, just follow the money.
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Pittsburgh police beat music student who performed for Obama Police brutality is alive and well. We cannot let this continue or we will all pay in the end.
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wikileaks documents confirm Tom Fox died for our sins The Wikileaks documents confirm the claims of death squad activities made in 2005. Those claims prompted Tom Fox and others to go to Iraq and investigate. The Wikileaks documents confirms what I've long suspected: Tom Fox, Steve Vincent, Yasser Salihee, Fakher Haider, and Ted Westhusing died for our sins.
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 14, 2009
The Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin, White Trash and Joe Wilson The party of Lincoln, the party of Margaret Chase, the party of Eisenhower, the party of Jack Kemp, and the party of John Danforth is no more. It has been taken over by white trash and their cynical manipulators.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tiger Woods and the Ambien bombshell they aren't chasing. (1 of 3 in a series) I'm not interested in stories about people I will never meet, but I am interested in stories that could affect people near and dear to me. So should you.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 11, 2010
MasterCard and Visa cut off Wikileaks, but the KKK is still OK! Want to support the KKK? MasterCard and Visa are only too happy to help. Want to support Wikileaks? You're on your own. I guess some purists are better than others, eh?
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 25, 2009
Dr. David McKalip tries to play bait-and-switch The debate is not about government-run health care. It is about government containing uncontrolled inflation in the health care insurance market. Confusing the two is a bait-and-switch tactic that needs to be debunked.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 15, 2009
Why isn't THIS memo front and center in the torture debate? This memo by Maj. Sherwood Moran has to be part of any discussion of torture -- especially by US forces engaged in combat.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Now we have to worry about TSA perverts and pedophiles? Groping women's breasts and pawing guys groins is bad enough. But molesting children in the name of safety can mean only one thing. The terrorists have won.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 4, 2010
Call me crazy, but I like to know who is screwing me. What about you? 4 companies hold 80% of the cash held by ALL 50 of the largest corporations in America. These companies have money to burn, and we're the ones getting burned.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sleepdriving on Ambien, how big a problem is it? (2 of 3 in a series) Driving in your sleep? You gotta be kidding. Actually, no.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 4, 2010
Rahm Emanuel's Excellent Hatchet Job -- on Obama. If you're hired to be the president's point man, you shouldn't be helping the opposition throw his agenda under the bus.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 18, 2009
Mything the Point of "White Men Built This Country." If MSNBC wants to put racists, hypocrites or Republicans on, that is their decision. But could they at least stop putting on morons who flaunt their ignorance of American history like Pat Buchanan?
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 13, 2009
Sen. Tom Coburn, MD and the Hypocritical Oath Let me introduce you to some of the good, decent, God-fearing people Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is throwing to the wolves. Depravity in a senator is nothing new. But this takes the cake.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 3, 2010
Ricky Martin's Lyrical Act of Courage Ricky Martin's decision to leave behind la vida mentirosa was more than an act of personal courage. It was a gift to millions of kids struggling to find the courage they need to step out into the light.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Newsflash: New Yorkers don't care what out-of-town bedwetters think. I'm sick and tired of half-assed quitters like Sarah Palin (half-term governor), Newt Gingrich (dumped his cancer-stricken wife), Glenn Beck (didn't last a semester in college) and idiot teabaggers (can't even finish a thought) getting all worked up about stuff happening in a city they are afraid to drive in.
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 18, 2010
Jean Carroll is gone, but she left us laughing Jean Carroll proves you can change the world in profound ways -- one laugh at a time.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 30, 2010
Kentucky Democrats unveil BRUTAL ad: The Rand Paul STOMP You won't find a better example of what the teabaggers want to do to you than the Rand Paul Stomp, a video put out by Kentucky Democrats.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 5, 2009
Mr. President, why not buy out Afghanistan instead of invading? For about $6 billion USD we could buy the entire wholesale value of the Afghan opium crop for the next 10 years. That is about what we'll spend in 2 months covering the cost of deploying 30,000 combat troops. Spend that money a little creatively and we could avoid a catastrophe in Afghanistan.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 3, 2009
Requiem for Bill, why May Day will never be the same Memorial to William Price, an American Hero and ardent defender of the Constitution.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 11, 2010
Bush Book Tour is Great News... For Kissinger! It is impossible to imagine a more striking example of a sociopath dropping his "Mask of Sanity" than this book tour and that interview. Who in their right mind brags about committing war crimes -- when no one is asking you about them?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 26, 2010
40 years later, and Daniel Ellsberg still scares the hell out of me. Daniel Ellsberg appeared at the Wikileaks press conference to give his support. He also issued a dire warning that most of the media has ignored. Ellsberg may not be "The Most Dangerous Man in America" anymore, but that's only because there are people working overtime in Washington to claim that title.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Questions people prefer not to ask Why, in a country swimming with opium, are suicidal women setting themselves on fire? You're kidding yourself if you think we don't own a piece of that.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 4, 2009
Brother President, you Break my Heart. Watching the speech at West Point called to mind the song by James Blunt, "No Bravery". As I looked at the president I saw no bravery, only sadness.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 18, 2010
John Tyler: Smacking Down Fools and Teabaggers, Too! Teabaggers say the damndest things. They also think repeating them makes them true. I love it when they make the argument from ignorance. It is invariably as easy to crush as a grape. Enjoy.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Sotomayor confirmation battle -- fait accompli . The GOP says they want to review all of Sotomayor's decisions but it's all greek to them. Besides, it's a fait accompli so why continue the kabuki?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 4, 2009
Un.Be.Lieve.Able. Cheney effectively admits he lied us into war. Dick Cheney admits there was NEVER evidence linking Hussein to 9/11. He's not claiming "bad" intelligence or "faulty" intelligence. He admits there was NO evidence despite the fact they used that claim to help justify going to war.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The US sends Israel a clear signal: Don't assume. For decades, Israel could count on the US to veto any Security Council resolution aimed at Israeli policy. That may come to an end in a very public and humiliating way for Israel when the US steps back and effectively tells Israel, "You're On Your Own" when it comes to illegal settlements.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 22, 2010
I never expected a pony, but this is ridiculous. When the Senate Majority Leader can boldly claim "I don't work for the president" a week before the guy even takes office, don't point at progressives and say we're undercutting Obama's agenda.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 31, 2009
Getting in touch with my inner rage and finding room for hope. The president receives the fallen at Dover AFB and with that act shows more compassion and courage than the entire Bush administration ever did in eight years.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 15, 2010
ACTION ITEM: Help push HR 4789 (Public Option Act) to the floor for a vote. Alan Grayson has just proposed legislation that would cut through all the nonsense and noise surrounding the health care "debate" and deliver a real public option. However, HR 4789 will not see the light of day unless it is voted out of the Ways and Means Committee. That's where you come in.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 23, 2008
The Fool is dead. Long Live the Fool! Sadly, Carlin will not get to perform at this year's Kennedy Center Awards. I was looking forward to it because I suspect he would have come at Bush like Colbert.... only with a baseball bat.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 27, 2010
If Obama wants to act like Lincoln, he has to act now. If the president wants to change the arc of history, he needs to act before he is history.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Poem: A Thousand Nightmares and Still No Name One thousand dead soldiers and not a single flag was lowered. That's worse than criminal. It's shameful.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 14, 2007
Unimpeachable Conservative Calls for Bush/Cheney Impeachment Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer with unimpeachable conservative credentials was on Bill Moyers Journal saying things that used to be considered "porn" on Daily Kos.  He is saying things many people their still have to be convinced make sense.  He's calling for the impeachment of Bush AND Cheney.  Immediately!

SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 22, 2009
'til death do us part... I've never been a big fan of Nancy Pelosi's leadership as Speaker of the House, but I was glad to hear her speak out against the rising tide of violent rhetoric. I recognized the pain behind the tears she was choking back.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 6, 2008
The Republican debates through the eyes of a 9-year old The Republican Debates Through The Eyes of a 9-year old. Kids really do say the darndest things!
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 4, 2010
Stephen Colbert Welcomes Harold Ford to the Big Apple. Stephen Colbert welcomes Harold Ford to "the gotchya capital" of the world. Satire.

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